Microprose GP2 Bug - or Not???

My machine is configured with a 4MB Millennium, Adaptec 2940, 3.2G Quantum Fireball, 1G Seagate 51080N, Panasonic PD drive, 133 processor, Win95 OSR2.The 2940 and Millennium have the most recent (released/non-beta) drivers.The Millennium also has a up-to-date BIOS. Both HDDs are formatted FAT32. There are no IDE drives, and I've disabled the IDE controller and all power management features in the motherboard BIOS setup. The problem: When I run F1-GP2, it fails (crashes) 9 out of 10 times when trying to write a hot lap to disk. I.e. Escape out of a practice session (whilst driving) and try to save a hot lap. Name the lap, and as it saves I get what looks like a brief program stack dump in the lower 1/3 of the screen and the game exits to DOS. This occurs either with the game run from DOS (reboot to DOS), or a Win95 DOS session. This is not a bug I've heard about before so I'm not sure it's the game itself being buggy. Can/does anyone reproduce this/know of a fix?? -- Best regards John

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> My machine is configured with a 4MB Millennium, Adaptec 2940, 3.2G Quantum > Fireball, 1G Seagate 51080N, Panasonic PD drive, 133 processor, Win95 > OSR2.The 2940 and Millennium have the most recent (released/non-beta) > drivers.The Millennium also has a up-to-date BIOS. Both HDDs are formatted > FAT32. There are no IDE drives, and I've disabled the IDE controller and > all power management features in the motherboard BIOS setup. > The problem: > When I run F1-GP2, it fails (crashes) 9 out of 10 times when trying to > write a hot lap to disk. I.e. Escape out of a practice session (whilst > driving) and try to save a hot lap. Name the lap, and as it saves I get > what looks like a brief program stack dump in the lower 1/3 of the screen > and the game exits to DOS. > This occurs either with the game run from DOS (reboot to DOS), or a Win95 > DOS session. This is not a bug I've heard about before so I'm not sure it's > the game itself being buggy. > Can/does anyone reproduce this/know of a fix?? > -- > Best regards > John

Sorry John, I can't help you. I can tell you that your machine is almost identical to mine (except for the PD drive and the Seagate...my second HD is a Conner) and I can save Hot Laps with no problem whatsoever. Neil -- Neil Yeatman Ajax, Ontario, CANADA My REAL email address is:

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> My machine is configured with a 4MB Millennium, Adaptec 2940, 3.2G > Quantum > Fireball, 1G Seagate 51080N, Panasonic PD drive, 133 processor, Win95 > OSR2.The 2940 and Millennium have the most recent (released/non-beta) > drivers.The Millennium also has a up-to-date BIOS. Both HDDs are > formatted > FAT32. There are no IDE drives, and I've disabled the IDE controller > and > all power management features in the motherboard BIOS setup. > The problem: > When I run F1-GP2, it fails (crashes) 9 out of 10 times when trying to > write a hot lap to disk. I.e. Escape out of a practice session (whilst > driving) and try to save a hot lap. Name the lap, and as it saves I > get > what looks like a brief program stack dump in the lower 1/3 of the > screen > and the game exits to DOS. > This occurs either with the game run from DOS (reboot to DOS), or a > Win95 > DOS session. This is not a bug I've heard about before so I'm not sure > it's > the game itself being buggy. > Can/does anyone reproduce this/know of a fix?? > -- > Best regards > John

I have had the same problem but only under Windows 95. I am running GP2 on a P166+, 64Meg SDRAM, Quantum Fireball 3.2G mode 5, Diamond Stealth 3D 2000. It is very annoying considering it runs very well otherwise even under W95. I run it under DOS with no dramas. Sorry I have no solution for you!Regards, Harry

go to Pieter's GP2 page where there's an utility that correct this problem.The address is: http://volftp.tin.it/GP2/index.html

Thanks for trying to point us people with this bug to a potential fix, however I cannot find this utility on this site. Could you give me the name of the utility? Thankyou! Harry

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> go to Pieter's GP2 page where there's an utility that correct this > problem.The address is: > http://volftp.tin.it/GP2/index.html > > When I run F1-GP2, it fails (crashes) 9 out of 10 times when trying > to > > write a hot lap to disk. I.e. Escape out of a practice session > (whilst > > driving) and try to save a hot lap. Name the lap, and as it saves I > get > > what looks like a brief program stack dump in the lower 1/3 of the > screen > > and the game exits to DOS. > > This occurs either with the game run from DOS (reboot to DOS), or a > Win95 > > DOS session. This is not a bug I've heard about before so I'm not > sure > it's > > the game itself being buggy. > > Can/does anyone reproduce this/know of a fix?? > > -- > > Best regards > > John